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> Angular 2 is currently in Alpha Preview. We recommend using Angular 1.X for production applications.

Not sure how they can "recommend" 1.X when it's completely incompatible with 2.0. Might as well recommend Ember, React, or literally anything else.

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> Not sure how they can "recommend" 1.X when it's completely incompatible with 2.0

I'm tired of people saying this. It's simply not true. The core team has said multiple times that there will be a migration path and they just announced today that you will be able to mix v1 and v2 components within the same project.

I agree with you completely. People just want to complain.

In addition to allowing your app to share components, they are also back porting parts of v2 to v1. So far, the router and ng-animate and I'm sure more will come.

I'm also guessing that someone is going to make an "add controllers to 2.0" addon that will be hugely popular with people slowly upgrading their 1.x apps

At ng-conf in the opening remarks they talked about how they plan to have people migrate from 1.X to 2.0. From what I understand if you start using the new router in Angular 1.4 then that will be the router for 2.0 which will allow you to use Angular 2.0 with 1.X components as you slowly migrate each 1.X component to 2.0. I think this is pretty reasonable.

Because 1.X is production ready and 2.0 isn't? 1.X will still be maintained.

Why would they recommend something other than angular on the angular homepage?

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